News in Brief New PCORI funding coming soon for low back pain research PCORI seeks to fund research looking at optimal treatment sequences for nonspecific chronic low back pain. Dec. 1, 2016Thursday AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Topics research The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will soon be releasing funding for chronic low back pain research. “PCORI seeks to fund large, pragmatic, randomized clinical trials that compare the effectiveness of sequences of efficacious and/or commonly used noninvasive interventions alone or in combination for patients with nonspecific, nonradicular chronic low back pain,” the funding notice says. Up to $50 million will be available to support high-quality studies in this area. This opportunity supports PCORI’s mission to improve the quality and relevance of evidence available to help patients, caregivers, clinicians, employers, insurers and policy makers make informed health decisions. See the pre-announcement for more information. The full funding announcement will be available Jan. 17, 2017. More in Newsbriefs TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana. “Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. Previous articleInsurance update: Spending on privately insured grows, ACA questions loom Next articleFollowing years of pain, former US ambassador finds relief through OMT
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